GERMANY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16406, 3 April 1919, Page 3

GERMANY

STRIKES SPREADING. THROUGHOUT ALU GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 3, 9.35 am. > PARIS, April 2. f The Bolsheviks are reported to have failed in a movement in GermanAustriu. Eleven were killed andi many wounded in the Frankfort riots. Tho strikes are spreading throughout Germany..—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ' THE GENERAL STRIKE. CAUSES NUMEROUS RIOTS. LONDON, April 2. Strikes are increasingly prevalent in Rhenish Westphalia. Martial law has been proclaimed over a wide area, including Stuttgart. There was some bloodshed during the Frankfort food riots. The German Government has forbidden the distribution of Allied food to strikers. The general strike riots in Berlin are spreading to the provinces. The military were called out, and there was much fighting and bloodshed. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER CRISIS. SAID TO BE AT HAND. (Received April 3, BJo a.m.) LONDON, April 2. The Daily Mail states that another revolutionary crisis is approaching in Germany. Bolshevism is spreading in sdfithern Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SPARTACIST RISING EXPECTED. (Received April 3, 8.55 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, April 2. The situation in Berlin is critical. There is another general strike, and h Spartaoist outbreak is expected. There have been riots in several industrial towns owing to the arrest of Spartacists who wore inciting a general strike. The agitation is very acute in Bavaria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROVOCATIVE ARTICLES. IN THE GERMAN PRESS. (Received April 3, 11.30 a.m.) PARIS. April 1. Advices from Switzerland show that German newspapers continue a provocative campaign over Danzig and the Saar Valid". Newspapers in close touch with the Government even hint at a possible rupture of -the armistice and renewal of hostilities in some form or other.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. • COURT OF INQUIRY. INTO THE FRY ATT MURDER. (Received April 3, 9.35 a.jn ) BERLIN, April 2. A Military Court has opened an investigation into tho Fryatt case.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. WHITEWASHING COMMISSION. ON GERMAN CRIMES. (Received April 3, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. The Government Commission' at Berlin has investigated the shooting of French prisoners at Mannheim after tho armistice and the 19X4 outbreak of typhus at Wittenberg camp. It decided against Germany lii the former case and favourably to Germany in the latter. A Washington report states that the camp was properly equipped with supplies. The statements of tho British doctors were based on hearsay and misuuderstanling. The commission exonerates Dr. Aschenbach, who superyised tho camp correctly, until he himself caught typhus. Assn.